September 11 Aftermath
Former Guantánamo guard details prisoner abuse
By Alexander Fangmann, March 3, 2009
In testimony given in December to a US human rights organization, former Army Spc. Brandon Neely, previously a guard at Guantánamo, detailed the torture and abuse that he witnessed or personally part...
“Enemy combatant” indicted to block Supreme Court review
By Bill Van Auken, March 2, 2009
In a cynical bid to quash a Supreme Court ruling on the Bush administration’s detention of “enemy combatants,” the Obama Justice Department has brought criminal charges against the last individu...
Five New Jersey men convicted in FBI-concocted Fort Dix “terror” case
By Bill Van Auken, December 24, 2008
A federal court convicted five young men from New Jersey Monday on conspiracy and gun charges for an alleged “terrorist plot” that would not have existed outside of the activities of undercover in...
Britain: Jury verdict over killing of Jean Charles de Menezes demolishes police lies
By Paul Mitchell, December 16, 2008
Jurors have rejected police claims that Jean Charles de Menezes was lawfully killed and returned an open verdict. The decision was the most damaging outcome possible for the Metropolitan Police after ...
US: Relatives of September 11 victims condemn Guantánamo show trial
By Naomi Spencer, December 12, 2008
In a letter released December 10, 33 relatives of people killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks have condemned the Guantánamo military tribunals as illegitimate and politically motivated.
9/11 guilty pleas expose Guantánamo kangaroo court
By Bill Van Auken, December 10, 2008
Washington’s plans to stage a 9/11 show trial at its Guantánamo Bay prison camp were thrown into disarray Monday when it was revealed that the five defendants are seeking to enter immediate guilty ...
Britain: Eyewitnesses reveal Jean Charles De Menezes shot without warning
By Marcus Morgan and Paul Mitchell, November 18, 2008
Several eye witness accounts given at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles De Menezes reveal how British police shot an innocent man without warning.
Another major terrorist trial begins in Australia
By Mike Head, November 11, 2008
Five men, held for more than five years in some of Australia’s worst isolation cells in “super-max” prisons, will finally face trial in Sydney this week in the second major “terror” trial to...
Washington secretly authorized military raids on 20 countries since 2004
By Bill Van Auken, November 11, 2008
Since 2004, the Bush administration has secretly authorized military raids against up to 20 countries without any declaration of war or even any explicit congressional authorization for armed action.
Three men convicted over 2002 Bali bombings set to be executed
By Patrick O’Connor, November 5, 2008
The imposition of the death penalty by the Indonesian government and judicial system is an act of state-sponsored murder that serves to promote backwardness and confusion and to obscure the real polit...
Britain: Lies begin to unravel in police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
By Vicky Short and Paul Mitchell, October 17, 2008
Explosive testimony has been presented to the inquest into the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, suggesting that he was shot even though he was known to be unarmed.
Contradictory verdicts in Australia’s largest terrorism trial
Rudd government rushes to claim “success”
By Mike Head, September 26, 2008
Australia’s largest and most protracted terrorist trial ended with distinctly mixed results last week in Melbourne. After a Victorian Supreme Court trial that ran for 115 days, the jury took nea...
